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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Red Cloud's War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who led a private expedition into the Powder River region in 1865?
(a) James Sawyers
(b) John Bent
(c) Patrick Connor
(d) John Clark

2. What ultimately happens after the Navajo discover they have been cheated?
(a) The soldiers kill all of the Navajo
(b) Chief Manuelito is hanged
(c) The soldiers run the Navajo out of the fort
(d) Chief Manuelito's prize horse is butchered

3. Who are Red Cloud, Man Afraid of his Horses, and Dull Knife?
(a) Sitting Bull's most famous followers
(b) Three chiefs who betray the Sioux nation
(c) Three surviving Arapaho chiefs
(d) Three prominant Sioux warrior chiefs

4. What event brought in an unexpected influx of white men to Colorado in 1858?
(a) California gold rush
(b) Opening the Denver mint
(c) Buffalo hunting
(d) Pike's Peak gold rush

5. Where is Little Crow finally defeated?
(a) The Yellow Medicine River
(b) The Washita River
(c) The Little Big Horn River
(d) The Rio Grande River

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1868 what does Red Cloud do?

2. What causes the Santee Sioux to want to leave the reservation?

3. The Sioux chiefs are invited to a peace conference at what fort?

4. What Cheyennes warrior warns an Arapaho village of an impending attack by Connor's men?

5. Who was chief of the Wdewkantons?

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